Fortelling - Story Writing App

AJP Digital Tools B.V.

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Novelist, are you ready to start writing your next amazing novel? Fortelling provides the tools you need to plot & write your book.

Plotting Tools
Our advanced plotting tools allow you to organize your book and guide you in writing the best version of your story.

World-building Tools
Create characters, languages, species & items. Keep everything consistent while writing and plotting.

Detailed Plotting
Create sublocations and document your unique universe. Remove the overwhelm while plotting your book.

Create Drafts for your Novel
Keeping your story safe is one of Fortelling's top priorities. You can create multiple draft versions of your book chapters.

Create an Overview
Link all your story elements together to create one giant board with related items. Describe their relations and keep your plotting elements organized.

Write your Novel
Make the dream of holding your story as a real book a reality. You can even write your novel within Fortelling. Use our writing statistics and version history to stay in control.

Collaborate
Working together on a story has never been easier. Through our real-time collaboration feature, you can keep the flow going and plot something amazing together.

Weekly Writing Challenges
Every Friday, we launch a fresh writing prompt to challenge your imagination.

Protect your Book and Story.
You retain full ownership of your novel. Create your book securely; there are no AI tools in Fortelling.

Ratings and reviews

I'm not exactly sure what was going on with the app when I first downloaded it but the problem seemed to have fixed itself. Now that I'm able to access the app and properly use it, it's very helpful. You're able to put as much detail into your story and characters as you want with almost no character limits while typing. You're able to upload images of both your characters and their story, create species guidelines, religions, cultures, etc. Overall a really good tool for world building!

This would easily be 5 stars but there's ONE thing that keeps me from rating it that way. When editing characters and inputting new information, the text cursor is virtually non-existent. It's only there when I start a new text but if I try to go back and edit something it only highlights either the word or the entire text so I can't even type anything else unless I delete it all and just retype everything to get to the point I want. It's one very small flaw that makes it unbearable to use.

By far one of the most in depth and versatile sources I have used to organize stories. I've searched for years for this with half of the organizational properties of Foretelling, and I'm frankly surprised by the amount of free features. None of the things behind a paywall inhibit you from using the app to its full potential which is honestly the best part. I can soundly say that the default fields given have pleasantly surprised me, some things I genuinely wouldn't have thought of on my own.

What’s new

Update 4.4.0:
- New: Free tier for the web version, create and edit projects for free on the web for smaller projects
- New: Redesigned web version project navigation
- Improved: Navigation on the web should be much faster now
- Fixed: Pop-ups didn't close on some occasions
- Fixed: Deleting story element images did not work for some users
- Fixed: Table preview did not show the dropdown value